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The T. Deyrollii is universal throughout Lanzarote and Fuerte- 

 ventura, where it abounds, beneath stones, independently of elevation ; 

 and it occurs likewise in the small adjacent islands of Graciosa (off 

 the extreme north of the former) and Lobos (off the extreme north of 

 the latter). It was taken also by Mr. Gray and M. Hartung, and has 

 been communicated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. It will easily 

 be recognized by its thick, oblong body and shining, intensely black 

 surface, which is closely punctured all over and has the hinder elytral 

 region sparingly studded with small tubercles or granules. Its epi- 

 stome is sharply, but minutely, mucronated in the centre ; its pro- 

 thorax is short and transverse, and slightly rounded at the sides ; 

 its humeral angles (as in the two following species) are less porrect 

 than is the case in the various allied forms above enumerated ; and 

 its limbs are short*. 



§ II. Corpus parvum; ocidis minoribus, magis lateralibus (i. e. vix sub 

 margine frontis laterali continvxitis),postice oblique subcarinato-ter- 

 minatis. 



701. Thalpophila fuscipes. 



T. oblonga, subopaca, nigra vel subfusco-nigTa ; eapite prothoraceque 

 dense et profunde punctatis, punctis versus latera oblongis et plus 

 minus longitudinaliter confliientibus, illius epistomate antice mi- 

 nutissime serrate et in medio mucronato, hoc subtransversim qua- 

 drate angulis posticis subobtusis ; elytris subtUius (sod distincte) 

 punctulatis ; antennis pedibusque piceis. — Long. corp. lin. 2-2|^, 



Hegeter fuscipes, BruUe, in Wehb et Berth. {Col.) 66 (1838). 

 , Hart, Geolog. Verhiiltti. Lanz. unci Ftiert. 140. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, sub lapidibus in inter- 

 mediis vulgaris. 



This and the following species are considerably smaller than the 

 two preceding ones, and have their eyes comparatively minute, as well 

 as less reniform and more lateral — being less transverse, or more con- 

 fined to the upper portion of the forehead, and terminated posteriorly 

 by an oblique angulated rim (or a kind of obscure keel). In all of 

 these respects, no less than in their coarsely sculptured head and pro- 

 thorax, the lateral punctures of which have an evident tendency (par- 

 ticularly in the T. submetaUica) to become oblong and longitudinally 

 confluent, they make a most decided approach to the Gnophota; from 

 Grand Canary, enumerated below ; nevertheless the peculiarity of 



* In its polished surface and general sculpture, tlie T. BeyroUii is a good deal 

 allied, at first sight, to my Hegeter latebricola, from the Salvages ; but that insect, 

 which is considerably larger, is a true Hegeter (its epistome not being mucronated), 

 and has its elytra free from tubercles, with the humeral angles, as in the Hegeters 

 generally, much more porrect. 



